Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-30
CURES FOR INSOMNIA.
BOB BuRoETTe GIVES A LONG LIST
OF SURE REMEDIES.

Some Of the "InfalIible Cures" Which
the Humorist Has Jotted Down In His
Little Health Book-One Of the Mys-
teries-
What pleases me when am tormented
with sleeplessness is a little health book
Of my own, in which have jotted down
a few-a very few-of the ''infallible RENE
dies for sleeplessness which have been
tried in thousands-or perhaps it was mil
lions-of cases, most of which were the
prescriber's own immediate family, or, at
the farthest. circle Of immediate friends
and had never once failed to effect a per-
manent. and it is needless to say, instant
cure. All of these cases collectively and
each one by itself individually were and
was exactly like my own in cause, dura-
tion and operation. rhe simplicity of the
combined remedy appeals az once TO hu-
Eat nothing within three hours before
retiring.
Eat light but substantial luncheon
lust before going to bed. Nature abhors
avacuum. CThis is one Of the prescriptions
like)
Read light literature before going to
bed
Read nothing after supper. Walk .
mile in the open air just before bedtime.
Go to your room an hour before retiring
and read until bedtime. Give up smoking
altogether.
If you arc 4 smoker n cigar just before
retiring will sooihe and tranquillize your
nerves until you can't keep awake.
Don't think about sleeping; you scare
away siumbcr by wooing the drowsy god.
ADDITIoSAL REMEDIES.
Resolutely resolve, as yon lie down. that
you will go TO sleep, and sleep will come
naturally.
Take warm bath and go from the tub
into bed.
Take n cold sponge bath. jump into bed,
and you'll be asleep before your head
touches the pillow.
Walk slowly about your room half an
hour.
Lie on your right side with your cheek
on your hand.
Lie on your left side, with your head
resting on your arm.
Drink milk. This, according TO my
experience, is the best prescription in the
lot. II will make you sleep better than
all the bromiGes going. which are suares
and deiusions. But milk diet not only
makes you sleep ut night, but you want
TO sleep all the next day. 1t makes You
in;olerably stupid all the time. 1t is u
very pleasant, half awake feeling, if you
have nothing else to do but to enjoy fall
ing asleep nt any time and in all manner
OF places, like Colville in the hest told
story of these times, Indian Summer"
but il you have any work 10 do 1t is en-
barrassing.t
Count up TO 100. Il tried this inhuman
bit Of idiocy one night came very near
falling asleep two or three times, but was
started wide awake by suddenly becoming
c"nscious that had lost my count, and
lad to begin over again. This cure kept
me awake one whole night, while ] was
so sleepy could scarcely hold my eyes
open. The friend who gave me this pre-
scrip:ion is not living now. She was .
woman, and could not, as a gentleman,
offer her violence. So l doSed n box Of
marshma!lows with Rough On Rats and
sent them to her.
WHAT Is TO BE DoNE'
So, what is "A sleepless man who wants
to sleep going to do, II lie eats a slight
luncheon, smokes n mild cigar, read Bun
ner an hour. walks "a mile in the air,
comes back and walks another mile abont
his room, takes a sponge bath coit., fol-
lowed by a tub bath. warm. drinks a pint
of milk, jumps into bed and lies on both
sides, with his head on one arm and one
hand, and counts a thousand, I. will DO
time 10 get up. anyhow, and E- can have
few nervous fits during the day.
1t is n fact, however, that even men
who think they suffer from sleepleSsuesa
do not lie awake half so long as they .ui-
agine they do. When man says TO me,
Il did not close my eyes once all night"
l know he lies. Not Intentionally, Of
course: he thinks he was awake ali night;
the probability is that he did not Ge 10
sleep until two hours after his regular
time. and il seemed an age to him
Really, it isn't often that a m,n lies
awake the whole night through. am not
a physician, and cannot speak by the
book, but l believe that men fih about
their restless nights more than any other
i'll 10 which our weak humanity i, heir.
Now take Your own case; you remember
the last time you lay awake all night,
don't your Yes, / see you do Well,
don't you remember that same night You
heard the clock strike 2, and then the
next time You heard il it struck - Yesr
see you do. Well, that's one of :hs
mysteries about insomnia tina: T. Giffieult
to explain